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345941 2005-04-17 09:20:00 Good- I just got Ubuntu Linux running

Bad- Under emulation software

Ugly- On Windows XP


Nevertheless, it is Linux, it works fully and for all intents and purposes it is a seerate machine, and I can truly dual boot ;)

Anyway, on to the problem. I'm having a few issues with setting up the networking. I'm running VMWare, so the Linux install gets it's own static IP (192.168.1.11). It can sucessfuly access the internet through our ADSL router, and can update/download any packages as necessary. What I'm trying to do is get it set up so in the Workgroup panel I can see 3 computers. Currently, all 3 of my systems (XP Home, Ubuntu and Win 98SE) can see 2 computers- the 98 & the XP one.

To configure the Ubuntu install to register on a windows workgroup, i have to install SMB. This is where the issue lies. In the cool update manager( Why can't windows have something like this?), all 4 packages that have SMB in their name (libsmbclient, libsmbclient-dev, smbclient & smbfs) have been installed & the newest version running. However the Network config screen is adament that the necessary SMB package isn't running :@@:

Is there something I have to manually have to install, or is there a pcakage I've possibly overlooked that should be installed?

Thanks, Edward :)
Edward (31)
345942 2005-04-17 09:34:00 You may of installed the packages, but have you started the samba service? Jen (38)
345943 2005-04-17 09:34:00 It is not clear from your post whether or not you have started the SMB service?

In Fedora:
service smb start (or stop or restart depending on what you are doing).

Maybe you have already done this?
johnd (85)
345944 2005-04-17 09:54:00 I've had a look in the processes tab, and no, neither samba or smb are there.

I've tried johnd's suggestion of "service smb start" in terminal, but it says "service cannot be found" :S
Edward (31)
345945 2005-04-17 10:08:00 Try as root:

/etc/init.d/samba start

You may need to set it to start automatically at boot time otherwise you will need to start it manually each time.
Jen (38)
345946 2005-04-17 10:34:00 The script in Fedora is called smb not samba - same for Ubuntu?
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
johnd (85)
345947 2005-04-17 10:44:00 I don't have access to the XP machine at the moment, so can't try it out. But I'll give it a shot in the morning :)

anyway, how can I make it load as boot?
Edward (31)
345948 2005-04-17 11:12:00 Hey Edward

Try This (ubuntuguide.org) link.

This is a link to Ubuntu Guide (http://ubuntuguide.org/) which gives practical instructions for most of the important things people will want to do with their Ubuntu Box. It shows in detail how to setup samba on Ubuntu.
Ash M (46)
345949 2005-04-17 14:27:00 Since it is Debian based you probably need these packages too:

samba - the actual samba server (i.e. not the client)
samba-common - common files for the client and server

Debian heavily modularises its packages..
gibler (49)
345950 2005-04-17 21:30:00 Since it is Debian based you probably need these packages too:

samba - the actual samba server (i.e. not the client)
samba-common - common files for the client and server

Debian heavily modularises its packages..
Shouldnt you just be able to apt-get samba-common and it would install samba as a dependiency?
ILikeLinux (1669)
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